General Directorate of Security

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Tag collecting the pages where letters and assessments of the General Directorate of Security appear.

The claim that the case file contains a FETÖ contact list

According to a claim circulated on 22 August 2026, the investigation file contains a table showing the FETÖ/PDY contacts of the movement's leadership. Two days later one of the lawyers on the case reported that he had shown the post to the prosecutor handling the file in person, and that the prosecutor said "there is definitely no list of this kind in our file".

Unverifiable

The claim that materials were smuggled out of the foundation

In a car stopped on 7 February 2018, the foundation's own magazines and handbooks were found; the report wrote this up as "smuggling", and the materials were laid out on the ground and photographed.

Distorted

The claim that an ISIS suspect attended the talks and that this shows a connection

A person who attended a talk open to everyone was counted as a "student" and as evidence of an organisational connection. Kuytul's only recorded relationship with ISIS is that his name appeared on the organisation's death list.

Distorted

March 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in March 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".

The claim that the case file contains a FETÖ contact list

The claim that materials were smuggled out of the foundation

The claim that an ISIS suspect attended the talks and that this shows a connection

March 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

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